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[[What If]] ''[[Star Wars]]'' as we know it didn't exist, but instead the plot of the movies was being made up on the spot by players of a [[Tabletop Games|Tabletop Game]]?
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* [[The Real Man]]: Jim, initially playing Qui-Gon Jinn, then, after the death of Qui-Gon, Padmé Amidala. He's a gung-ho, enthusiastic player, [[Leeroy Jenkins|often blindly rushing into danger.]] [[Idiot Hero|Also prone to humorous misunderstandings of the setting, bizarre and obviously incorrect explanations,]] and creation of [[Plot Tumor]]s. His insane plan regarding the pod race must be [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0098.html seen] to be believed.<ref>He's also pursuing a master's degree in geophysics. In Pete's words, he relaxes by doing things that let him turn his brain off</ref> So far in Episode IV, his characters (including Captain Antilles, the only one the audience has witnessed) have wound up being [[Mauve Shirt]]s; but that changed when he started playing Han Solo.
* [[The Roleplayer|The Brain]]: Ben, playing Obi-Wan Kenobi. He prefers to think rationally before acting, comes up with sane plans, but is quick to resort to fast-talking the GM if nothing else works. Also [[Lampshade Hanging|points out the unlikelihood]] of situations they run into. At some point since Episode III he stopped coming to game sessions, but he eventually returns for Episode IV. Once Obi-Wan was done in, he started playing a very-well-spoken Chewbacca.
* [[The Loonie]]: Sally, playing Jar Jar Binks in Episode 1. By the time the Episode 2 campaign started, she decided Jar Jar was stupid, and bounced around several characters before mainly settling on C-3PO and Yoda. She's Ben's kid sister, who he once brought to a game session when their parents weren't home. Many of the wacky elements of the setting, such as the Gungans (including her own character), Toydarians, and an elected 14-year-old queen, are products of her wild imagination; the GM seems to have largely left the task of designing settings and alien races to her, in acknowledgment of the fact that she is more creative with such things than he is. Sally is also pure awesome in a can, given that she was able to accomplish the flat-out impossible feat of making Jar Jar Binks ''[[Rescued
* The [[Munchkin]]: Pete, playing R2-D2. He joined after Jim told him about the game and designed his character in advance using [[Min-Maxing]], resulting in a verbally-challenged non-humanoid robot with insane mechanic skills. For a short time, he filled in for the GM "due to some family emergency or whatever". His style of doing this seems to be...''[[Railroading|dif]][[Killer Game Master|fer]][[Marty Stu|ent]]''. He has something of a soft spot for Sally, which makes a lot more sense once she sticks with C-3PO for Episode IV.
* [[The Roleplayer|The Thespian]]: [[Meaningful Name|Annie]], initially playing Shmi Skywalker but soon switched to Anakin rather than shoehorning Shmi into the adventuring party. As of Episode IV, she's Leia ''and'' Darth Vader. Ben told her about the game in drama class. Her unfamiliarity with typical RPG player behavior results in amusing misunderstandings, such as her mistaking Qui-Gon for a robber when he attempts to [[Kleptomaniac Hero|search Shmi's house for loot]]. Her roleplaying tends to be filled with [[Hidden Depths]] and [[Grey and Gray Morality|moral ambiguity]], which sometimes screws with [[Black and White Morality|the more straightforward mindset]] of the other players. As a joke, plays what is considered to be the worst acted character from the prequel trilogy.
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* [[All Planets Are Earthlike]]: Firstly [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0014.html spoofed], and then [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0050.html actively averted] by the GM in response, resulting in the production of a [[Single Biome Planet]]. The GM was trying to get them back on the damn rails so they'd go to Coruscant, not stop off on a planet he hadn't thought up yet.
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: [[In-Universe]]—one of the main purposes of the comic is to reinterpret the original characters: Palpatine may be a good guy, Dookû is a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]], Darth Maul is a private detective and... Jar Jar is... a genius?
{{quote|'''Jar Jar:''' Dis meaning war, wesa needs to have a stronger leader! Mesa suggests Chancellor Palpatine gets [[New Powers as the Plot Demands|emergency powers]]!
'''[[Reasonable Authority Figure|Palpatine:]]''' What?! }}
{{quote|'''Palpatine''': I needed a lieutenant of unparallelled acumen; but alas, Jar Jar turned me down.}}
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* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]:
** Episode [http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0329.html 329]:
{{quote|'''Obi-Wan:''' Let's see. You stole the plans for a symbol of peace. You're allied with (a) a known megalomaniacal warlord and (b) a criminal sociopath. You have not one, but two, armies at your disposal. You've captured me -- unfairly -- and are holding me with no means of escape. And you're [[Evil Gloating|monologuing]].
'''Count Dookû:''' ''I'' [[Hypocritical Humor|am monologuing?!]] }}
** And in Episode [http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0356.html 356]:
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'''Padmé:''' [[Shotacon|He's nine years old! Do you know how creepy that is?]] }}
* [[Jerkass]]: Pete's stat-obsessed, railroading, and killer GM attitude is quickly turning him into this. And he can't even understand ''why'' the other players are starting to hate him. He does apologize afterward, and admits he genuinely enjoys playing with the team.
* [["Join the Army," They Said]]: Hilariously used by a ''droid'', of all things, [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0175.html here].
== K-O ==
* [[Killer Game Master]]: Pete, as substitute GM, is the one who comes up with the droid factory scene from ''Attack of the Clones''. He even laughs at Annie when she initially fails a roll.
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** Also, Pete:
{{quote|'''R2-D2:''' I'd be half-way to taking over the Republic by now: I'd add a backdoor control mechanism, outsource production to three independent contractors on Kamino, ensure the Senate are distracted by some meaningless invasion somewhere, and cover my tracks with fake blueprints.
[[Beat Panel|beat]]
'''R2-D2:''' What? }}
** And from Jim:
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* [[Take That]]: Many, directed at the original films, especially when the GM suggests that Annie take over the role of Anakin when he enters the pod race:
{{quote|'''Annie:''' Um, okay... Let me just get into the right mindset.
'''Qui-Gon/Jim:''' With my [[My Name Is Not Durwood|mini-chlorines]] in your blood, you can't lose.
'''Anakin/Annie:''' Yippeee!
'''Annie:''' Sorry, wait. That line doesn't work at all for this character. }}
** "[[Dune|Giant worms in a desert]] is just silly."
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* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Annie's [http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0553.html grand scheme] in Episode III is to play the Jedi Council, Palpatine, and Ben/Obi-Wan against each other, making each of them think the other is Sith, with the ultimate goal of standing atop the resulting chaos and gaining complete control of the galaxy as the [[Man Behind the Man]]. Jim and Pete are left slack-jawed in admiration. The gambit ultimately fails when Palpatine takes the [[Left for Dead]] Anakin and sticks him in a robot body designed to place him under Palpatine's control.
* [[You Fight Like a Cow]]: [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0393.html Here,] complete with ''[[Monkey Island]]'' quotes and a link to the trope page.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: [[Just for Pun|But not for the definition of "failed me"]] [http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0625.html that you would think...]
** When it gets to the actual force-choke scene, the guy mouthing off to Vader is complaining that they've had to replace half the work-force over the past six years due to Vader killing anyone he doesn't like. Vader decides that he has a point...and from now on he'll just choke ''all'' the incompetents ''half'' to death.
* [[You Killed My Father]]: "You. Killed. My. '''{{spoiler|[[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|Partner.]]}}'''" ([http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0283.html Here.])
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